Club History

Art Ingles built the first Go Kart in California in August 1956 and racing commenced in Sydney on 24 July 1960 at Castlereagh air strip.

The first Purpose built tar go kart track opened at Caringbah in August 1960. Lithgow City Go Kart track was then opened for racing in February 1963 Lithgow Go Kart Club conducted the Australian Sprint Kart Championship in Easter of 1965. In the 1970’s karting went into a recession and the Lithgow Go Kart Club ceased promotion of race meetings. Racing returned to Lithgow in the late 70’s, with race meeting promoted by Western District’s Kart Club. In February 1981 a meeting was called, and new club is formulated and named as Combined District’s Kart Club (CDKC).

CDKC Racing commences under a lease arrangement with the owner of the property Lithgow Kart Club and Clyde Marshall.

The founding President, Col Becker was instrumental to the purchase of the property from Lithgow Kart Club & Clyde Marshall and in 1987 CDKC became the proud owners. In 1992 the track was further developed into its current format and improvements to the clubhouse and grounds were made.

The club was host to the 2005 NSW State Kart Championship. With this event in mind the committee, made. a great deal of improvements including the up grade of the club electrical including the pit area and improvements to the toilets and showers a new weigh shed, technical area and to the club pit area including the tarring of all the access roads.

More recently state championships have been hosted in 2013 (297 entries), 2015 (133 entries) 2018 (179 entries) and 2023 (230 entries).

In 2018 a full resurface of the 751 metre race circuit and out-grid was completed. The resurface was funded with Club resources and a loan from the Track Development Fund.

Several National and State Championships along with CIK and Pro Tours events have been conducted at Lithgow City Raceway since 1963.

CDKC over the years have been innovators in karting promotions including one of the driving forces in the promotion of the Premier State Cup. Additionally, the introduction of the Junior Development Camps in NSW In conjunction with Karting NSW and the AKA. CDKC is also the market leader in promoting females to the sport and hosted the Ladies Nationals on an annual basis. CDKC also is proud to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation and has raised over $200,000 in funds to support this great cause.

• 1981 Formation of Combined Districts Kart Club
• 1987 Purchase of Lithgow City Raceway
• 1987 Purchase and installation of the club house
• 1992 Track extension and re surface
• 2018 Resurface track and replace curbs
• 2019 Install Race America Safety Light System
• 2021 Commence construction of new race control tower
• 2022 Install CDKC designed race control light board.
• 2023 New race control tower commissioned.
• 2023 New In-grid and tech area commissioned.
• 2023 Install CCTV system to assist race control.

CDKC is regarded as a “family-oriented club” that has also generated many champions in motor sport including Champions.

• James Courtney (Junior Karting World Champion and V8 Supercar Driver)
• Ryan Briscoe (Indy car and Sportscars)
• Joey Mawson (Current Gold Star S5000 champion)
• Jayden Ojeda (Dunlop Super 2)